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    R.E.M. was an American alternative rock band formed in Athens, Georgia in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia.

  3. Sep 21, 2011 · The story of REM is in many ways the story of alternative rock in the USA. They emerged in the early 1980s from the college radio scene - scrappy and lo-fi, abrasive but somehow beautiful -...

  4. Oct 7, 2024 · R.E.M. is an American rock group and the quintessential college rock band of the 1980s. R.E.M. drew on varied influences to regale fans with albums fashioned from unpredictable blends of nonmetal rock and impressionistic folk.

  5. R.E.M. founding members Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe played their first show on April 5, 1980, at a friend’s birthday party in an abandoned church in Athens, Georgia. From that point forward until 2011 when they decided to call it a day, the band released fifteen albums, toured the world, won multiple Grammys, were ...

  6. May 18, 2020 · In a 2016 interview with David Fricke of Rolling Stone, guitarist Peter Buck insisted that R.E.M. never truly broke up, despite their 2011 message where they declared they were "calling it a day as a band." To be fair, there's a lot of "technically," there.

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  7. Jun 13, 2022 · R.E.M. is a band from Athens, Georgia, and is recognized as one of the earliest alternative rock bands. By the time the band broke up in 2011, they had become one of the most successful rock acts in history, selling more than 85 million albums around the world.

  8. May 15, 2019 · But his own story does matter: Inspired by the band, he enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens (the school its members dropped out of) just as R.E.M. was becoming one of the biggest rock...